Setting Profiles
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Make life easy with Android
So far this is most confusing area of our app.
Setting Profiles takes quite different approach to profiles comparing to other similar apps. It allows to have multiple profiles active at one time. And here is typical use case why:
So with multiple profiles active all this three profiles and rules to activate them work nicely together. Since it is possible to be in the office, on meeting and with charger connected at the same time in real world, we do allow three profiles active at the same time in Setting Profiles app as well. Try to imaging how to handle such case with classical single profile active approach…
What happens if two profiles have conflicting setting? The one activated most recently or with higher priority will win. The order in which profiles were activated is shown by small numbers on colored tag left to active profile.
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July 13, 2010 - 4:56 pm
There is already a distinction between “Toggle” profiles and “Activate” a profile. I’d like to have access to this distinction when I’m creating rules.
This would be similar to setting priorities for profiles, essentially just using two priorities. I would have a few profiles that Toggle and a few profiles that Activate. For example, my @Work and @Home profiles would Toggle – if @Work is true then @Home cannot be – but my On Charger profile could Activate or deactivate in either setting.
July 6, 2010 - 9:48 am
How about a profile priority of “Exclusive” such that when activated by a rule, it just takes over instead of stacking?
July 1, 2010 - 3:33 pm
Would like a plugged in option to change brightness based on sun up or down.
June 13, 2010 - 3:47 am
I’m also for the priorities. Then it’s my choice which rule is most important.
June 5, 2010 - 5:52 am
Definitely agree with the suggestion for rule priorities that can be manually set. This would make the whole thing with multiple active profiles so much simpler.
June 3, 2010 - 2:31 pm
“What happens if two profiles have conflicting setting? The one activated most recently will win. ”
Can you discuss this statement with more than two profiles and what happens as the profiles are deactivated (i.e. condition fails)? Does the active profile revert to the last profile with “seniority?”
Will the profiles keep cascading downward until all have deactivated?
“Side effect when two rules do trigger same profile, which ends up in unexpected behavior.”
Could this be solved by the user by just having multiple identical profiles so that each rule is linked to only one profile?
Thanks — this app puts the SMART in smart-phone!
May 11, 2010 - 9:20 am
I’m having the exact same issue. I have an @Home profile, an @Work profile and a generic @Out profile that has bluetooth on. Like you, I have four rules set up for @Home, not @Home, @Work, not @Work.
Also, is there a way to set up a condition that will not deactivate bluetooth if I’m on a call? If I have @Out activated and I get home while I’m on a call, the bluetooth will deactivate during the call. Very annoying
May 8, 2010 - 1:09 am
1.set priority
2. Set default profile
May 7, 2010 - 11:04 am
Priorities are definitely important. I also wish you could add multiple of the same conditions to a rule – i.e. I always want to turn wifi on if I’m at home OR in the office, and off outside of that. That’s impossibly confusing as is for two reasons: I have to set up four different rules (@Home+wifi, not @Home-no wifi, @office+wifi, not @office-no wifi) and I’m completely baffled how these four rules will interact with each other. If I could assign priorities, that might fix it – give @home and @work priority, and not@home and not@work lower priority, but even being able to use OR logic between two of the same criteria would fix it as well.
I recognize that would add a bit of complexity, though. Any suggestions for me otherwise, better ways to set it up?
May 5, 2010 - 1:09 am
Definitely agree with the suggestion for rule priorities that can be manually set. This would make the whole thing with multiple active profiles so much simpler.
April 21, 2010 - 6:41 pm
It would be useful to have a time to lock function ass profile setting – e.g. lock in x minutes if no activity. There is a nice plugin for locale that does this.
April 21, 2010 - 6:34 pm
Oh, one other thing that would be awesome is if the software had the ability to shut off the GPRS radio (while leaving phone and SMS on). At home I use wifi to connect to the internet, so I’d like to shut off the data connection to my cellphone carrier.
Because I want the phone and SMS to continue to work at home, Airplane Mode doesn’t work for what I want…
I’ve seen other widgets that do this, but I do not see that toggle in your software.
April 21, 2010 - 6:31 pm
I think it would be sweet to have a profile priority (for base settings based on rules), and a separate changes based on other rules.
i’d create home, work, and cardock rules. Work would be a priority, then cardock, then home, then default (if I’m not in one of those situations). Those would be my base profiles.
Then I’d have a separate set of rules that only checked things like whether it’s on a charger.
So my first four profiles (”Rules”) would be prioritized settings that change the major things like ringtone, volume, enable GPS/Bluetooth/WiFi, etc. Then a set of minor rules that would (for instance) modify whatever main profile is currently active and set the screen to never shut off if it’s connected to a charger…
March 15, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Will test it now
March 15, 2010 - 8:31 am
All set-up has been erased on my HTC Magic since last three updates and no rules can be generated to even start using the app. What happened? It was ok before (except wifi on-off never worked) but the full version can’t do anything whatsoever now. How can this be repaired or how I be refunded? Thanks.
March 15, 2010 - 9:26 am
Please do this:
1. backup SP settings (if you made backup before just skip this)
2. uninstall
3. re-download
4. restore SP setting from backup
5. reboot your phone
this will fix the issue (due to android 1.5 could not handle updates with widget design changed)
March 8, 2010 - 9:03 am
It seems that this app uses lots of battery. Example, I set a profile to turn everything off at 1am to 7am. In that time my sprint HTC hero has used about 10% battery. Any thoughts on this?
March 15, 2010 - 9:30 am
You can see top battery consumers if you go to Setting -> About Phone -> Battery Use
On our Nexus One SP rarely gets into the list with <2% of battery use
February 16, 2010 - 6:28 am
Hi,
i really miss the possibiliy to DEACTIVATE a profile when defining a action for a rule. E. g. I will deactivate profile ‘@car’ (BT on, GPS on, Wi-fi off) when leaving the car and remove the Droid from car dock.
February 16, 2010 - 6:33 am
Profiles are deactivated automatically once any of it conditions fails. I.e. if you have rule with condition ‘in car dock’ which activate profile ‘@car’ once you remove it from car dock it will deactivate that profile (i.e. restore BT, GPS and Wi-Fi to it’s original state).
June 10, 2010 - 10:43 am
I love the app and after trying the light version have bought it on the next day.
I second the request for a DEACTIVATE PROFILE ACTION.
Here is my use case. I want to set a quiet profile when at @Office. To be more accurate I have set up @Office based on a WiFi access point. I have also set up @OfficeArea based on a set of cell Ids. To preserve battery I have two profiles InTransit which is activated when in location @OfficeArea and all it does is to turn on the WiFi. Then when in the range of the office WiFi AP profile AtWork is activated which turns off the sound and switches off the WiFi (I want to preserve the battery). Note that both profiles are active now. However the application gets into a loop. Profile AtWork turns the WiFi off and this deactivates profile @Office.
Would really love the ability to DEACTIVATE A PROFILE.
Thanks
February 9, 2010 - 12:22 am
Why not definite a priority for profiles? Then it would be trivial (and up to the user) to decide which profile is the most important or restrictive.
June 11, 2010 - 6:41 am
I agree, priority for profiles is exactly what I would like to see. That way, I can control which profiles are activated. For example, when I drive to work, I have a car dock profile. When I get near work, the work profile takes over, however, this shuts off things I would still like to have active until I remove the phone from the car dock.
February 3, 2010 - 4:13 am
Consider to show most recently activated profile on the top of list (in program and widget). Thus it will be seen which one were activated last, and also see “history” of profiles, and more used profiles will be on top for quick access too.
Also please consider adding some profiles icons for better visuality.